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"I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV."
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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"

"The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort."

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

"People who made their dreams come true didn't simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream."

"I achieve what I plan because I plan what I can achieve."

"Success is deliberate. It doesn't come as an accident. What you work for is what you achieve. Faith without work is a vain hope."
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"In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly."

"My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'"

"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."

"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."

"They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together."

"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."

"A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens."

"In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes."
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